Boris Johnson’s disastrous India trip: Little progress on trade deal, partygate rows, Tory donor bulldozers and Modi stays close to Putin

Boris Johnson today indicated at a press conference in India that he did not try to encourage the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to go further in dropping India’s neutrality over the Russian President’s invasion of Ukraine. Also, Johnson’s two-day trip was dogged by questions over the deepening partygate scandal, with a Tory rebellion leading [...]